Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!oliveb!3comvax!bridge2!ngg From: ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 6.0.2 and Word Message-ID: <337@bridge2.3Com.Com> Date: 15 Feb 89 22:23:59 GMT References: <35727@bbn.COM> <730@wpi.WPI.EDU> <330@bridge2.3Com.Com> Reply-To: ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger) Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA Lines: 26 In article js9b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon C. Slenk) writes: >Just _my_ opinion: If software has been advertised to work, it should do so as >defined by the company. I doubt that Word's packaging says "This product may >erase all your work while saving" because if it did, no one would buy it. They >never said it, so it really shouldn't happen (ie the idea of saving a file does >not include destroying it irretrievably (sp?)). > >Thus: while the dude should have saved a lot more, perhaps, and not have used >the Save As... selection, it is still microsoft who screwed him up in the end. > While my initial opinion still stands, I do concur that Microsoft does take some blame perhaps as the software should be able to deal with some errors. However if you save minimally every 10-15 minutes perhaps more, you are guaranteed of losing only that much work unless a subsequent crash takes the document with it... If you refuse to save often, and trust the computer and the "software" not to screw up, you still get what you ask for, and thats a lot of work down the drain... --- -- Norm Goodger SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862 3Com Corp. Co-Sysop FreeSoft RT - GEnie. Enterprise Systems Division (I disclaim anything and everything)